Managing Research Work: The following activities will lead one to
manage his research work effectively:
g) Managing Supervisor: In any field of study, resource persons are very busy but they are also crucial to the success of any research work. The majority of the supervisors are highly experienced and will do their best to make the researcher’s visit to them productive and enjoyable (exceptions will always be there). So, as a research worker, the research scholar shouldn’t hesitate to use his /her supervisor within their legitimate time period.
a) Managing
Yourself: Doing any kind of research work is a lonely experience. Sometimes
it looks like that the person doing the research and his/her guide or
supervisor is the only two people in this world who are interested in that particular
subject. So, keeping it in mind the research scholar should not try to discuss
about their research work with a common person unless he / she is the
professional colleague.
b) Managing
Friends and Family: It would be better if the researcher does not expect
too much from his/her friend and family members, as they can do nothing, except
giving a glimpse of encouraging words and a moral support. The researcher
should also avoid in telling in an extensive way about the research work to the
friends and family members, otherwise others may see the researcher like a
bore. So, in simple, during the course of the research work the researcher
should try to maintain a balance (though it’s really a difficult task) between
research work and the social responsibility.
c) Managing
Time: One cannot find more time than what he / she has. What one can do is
only to manage his / her time for a productive work instead of spending it in
the way of gossiping, unnecessary thinking, etc.
d) Managing
Document: The research scholar should arrange all the resources collected
or own resource,s i.e books, articles, etc. in a systematic way, so that in
case of immediate retrieval it does not cost much time.
e) Research
Diary: During the course of research work, the research diary should move
along with the researcher. He/she should keep notes of everything
(necessary/near unnecessary), because what today seems to be unnecessary may be
relevant tomorrow.
f) Keeping
Backup: During the course of the research work, different ideas will invade
the mind of the researcher. Keeping a back up copy of these ideas by way of
documenting over the note book may some times prove extraordinarily important.
Some times ideas are invaluable one, and it may have the capacity to give a new
wing to the researcher’s career. The researcher should also keep backup copy of
the writing on daily basis, both in soft copy as well as hard copy ignoring
whatever the cost may be.
g) Managing Supervisor: In any field of study, resource persons are very busy but they are also crucial to the success of any research work. The majority of the supervisors are highly experienced and will do their best to make the researcher’s visit to them productive and enjoyable (exceptions will always be there). So, as a research worker, the research scholar shouldn’t hesitate to use his /her supervisor within their legitimate time period.
h) Citation
Style: Before going through the research work, the research scholar should
determine which citation format he/she is going to follow and after wards
whatever the research scholar reads, he / she should immediately include it in
the reference page, according to the chosen citation style. It is crucial, if
one does not want to include his/her name in the list of “plagiaries”, by not
citing them. The normal strategy for longer quotation is to write it in
italics, keeping a small gap before as well as after the quotation.
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